WBAL has ranked Maryland’s Most Affordable Housing Towns. Salisbury ranked fourth behind Cumberland, Clinton, and Hagerstown.
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This is a joke. Did they take into account that 80% of the city is rentals. How about they stop ranking us with the western shore and there Federal paychecks and do it with a wage to rate ratio scale here on the shore and see how it goes.
ReplyDeleteGo visit the other towns listed ...you wouldn't want to live in any of them.Clinton is a literal war zone and Cumberland and Hagerstown offer little in the way of employment.
ReplyDeleteSocieconomically Salisbury is in decline and "affordable Housing" is a symptom of that decline.
I'm not surprised. Many people are trying to get out of Salisbury, creating a housing glut. The result: one can find houses very cheap. As 3:20 said, a majority of houses are rentals, many to students. Most of the houses that are being built within city limits are low-priced. If I were to attempt to sell my Salisbury house, I would probably have to sacrifice it.
ReplyDeleteYes, that is correct!!!
ReplyDeleteThat's because Salisbury built a lot of crap, and now no one can unload it.
ReplyDeleteThe slumlords bought up a lot of property, and while they gouge the renters, they drove down the property values of homeowners.
Things are cheap because there aren't any local jobs that pay well. I guess it is affordable for those that move here with a lot of money in the bank. Otherwise, scan the job ads and just try to find a job paying over $10/hour. And let's not even talk about jobs that pay $30k or $40k.
ReplyDeleteI call BS on this one. Salisbury is expensive compared to other Md communities
ReplyDeleteYou get what you pay for
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